Haringey Welcome
Haringey Welcome is a grassroots volunteer-led campaigning organisation working to bring about positive change for migrants, refugees, diaspora communities and all residents of the London Borough of Haringey. Our mission is to create an inclusive, nurturing environment in which rights are upheld and the voices and experiences of migrants and asylum seekers are heard. Informed by these voices and experiences we act to make Haringey a welcoming borough for all and campaign to ensure equal access to services like housing, healthcare, education and employment. Email:[email protected] Website / Facebook
Refugees Welcome in Richmond
Refugees Welcome in Richmond (RWinR) is a charitable incorporated organisation led by volunteers dedicated to supporting people seeking sanctuary in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and surrounding areas. Our volunteers provide befriending and language support to help those fleeing crises, conflicts, or persecution around the world who arrive here to settle into the community and access services they need. We’re always looking for more supporters to join us. RWinR works alongside Richmond Council’s Resettlement Team to supplement the support offered by caseworkers. We’re also finding homes for clients who urgently need rental accommodation. In collaboration with the Council, [...]
Ideas Hub Chelmsford
Ideas Hub Chelmsford operates the Chelmsford Integration Project (CIP) - a team of volunteers who provide 20 ESOL classes per week. CIP caseworkers also provide support to asylum seekers and refugees with issues such as destitution, application forms for transition from asylum to refugee status, and help for refugees to settle in temporary accommodation, as well as homelessness prevention for single men who are not a priority for TA. CIP also provides holiday activities for under 5s and helps other children access free activity camps. CIP works closely with The Essex British Red Cross. All faith Groups including the Diocese and [...]
Welcome Home Project
Welcome Home offer high quality, well equipped temporary, emergency accommodation for mothers and children, based in London. We work with social workers and agencies needing to provide the accommodation when an emergency situation arises. Each room has its own bathroom, fridge, microwave, desk, chair and TV. Our families share a kitchen, lounge, garden and washing facilities. We offer personalised support to our Mums, from school or nursery applications to connections with local food banks etc, whilst working with social workers to understand each family's specific needs. Contact: Lise Thorne Email: [email protected] Website
West London Welcome
West London Welcome is a community centre run for and with refugees, migrants, people seeking asylum and other locals living in West London. We provide a food bank, social and advice drop-ins, financial, legal and casework support. Contact: Leyla Williams Website
Ekaya Housing Association
Ekaya Housing Association is a BME landlord, provides general needs housing, supported housing, temporary accommodation and shared ownership. Phone: 020 70 911 800 Website
RootsMove CIC
RootsMove seeks to prevent refugees becoming homeless when leaving Home Office accommodation by facilitating the provision of funding, access to specialist advice and wraparound support. Contact: Grace Burgess (Director) Phone: 07536 996 384 Email:[email protected] Website
Wycombe Refugee Partnership
Wycombe Refugee Partnership is a multi-cultural group in High Wycombe who have come together out of a shared concern to help destitute refugee families in the UK. We give wrap-around support, helping with job-seeking and registration with schools, doctors, dentists and English classes, and have a temporary accommodation project in partnership with Chiltern Area Quakers. Contact: Sue Butler Phone: 07572 484 830 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Notre Dame Refugee Centre
Notre Dame Refugee Centre supports refugees and asylum seekers in London. Phone: 0207 440 2669 Website/ Facebook
Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign
Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign: Volunteer-run charity supporting resettling refugees and asylum-seekers in Cambridgeshire. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Resettlement CIC
Resettlement CIC is a Reading-based Community Interest Company founded in 2021 with the intention of supporting those living in our community who are displaced. We will try to support in any way with general (non-legal) advice and signposting, but we focus largely on housing; those ineligible for emergency accommodation and are therefore likely to face street homelessness. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Thatcham Baptist Church
Between January 2022 and December 2023, Thatcham Baptist Church welcomed people waiting for asylum decisions or receiving refugee status. From December 2023 - December 2024 we hosted some of those who had become known to church members while they found their way into employment and longer term accommodation. We now provide ad-hoc support to people with refugee status, and those with NRPF on sponsorship visas. Work is plentiful in this area but housing is extremely expensive and social housing very limited, especially for single adults. Contact: Sarah Wylie Phone: 01635 867 054 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Asylum Welcome
Asylum Welcome offers information, advice and practical support to asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants living in Oxfordshire. We help adults, young people and families to feel safe, respected and understood as members of our diverse community. Contact: Tania Baldwin-Pask Phone: 01865 722 082 Email: [email protected] Website
Refugee and Migrant Justice
Refugee and Migrant Justice (formerly RAMFEL) is a charity that supports vulnerable migrants to access justice and provides vital support in moments of individual crisis. We work to support people in crisis, fight together to access justice and breakdown barriers that stand in peoples way. We help Refugees & Migrants feel safe, welcome and able to get on with their lives in the UK. We offer IAA Level 3-accredited immigration advice, helping asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants with applications such as renewals, citizenship, and E-visas. While most of our services are free, capacity is often limited, we therefore offer a [...]
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement (OHM)
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement is a partnership of the many organisations helping those who are homeless in Oxfordshire. We all work to ensure that nobody should have to sleep rough on our streets. If you think of these organisations as a community, then think of us as the Community Centre! We bring greater visibility to all of the county’s work in this area, signposting volunteers, supporters and those experiencing homelessness to the actions and services they’re looking for. OHM’s flagship project supports people experiencing homelessness who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF), meaning they have lost or don’t have access [...]
Hope Into Action: Southampton
Hope into Action: Southampton is a project of City Life Church Southampton. It is a franchise, and part of the wider Hope Into Action UK network – a Christian housing project set up to help break the cycle of housing poverty. Website
Signposts (Luton)
Signposts is here to help people who are homeless in Luton and Dunstable, Our aim is to help clients achieve their own maximum potential to live and develop in the community Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook / Twitter
Hope for Southall Street Homeless
Hope for Southall Street Homeless: Enabling people to take ways out of Rough sleeping which result in them leading fulfilled lives. We can only support individuals verified through Ealing Rough Sleeper Agent, St Mungo's. Contact: John Murphy Phone: 07983 505 138 Email: [email protected] Website / Instagram / Facebook
Connection Support
Connection Support are part of a partnership project across Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire to provide housing, legal advice and support to those who are homeless, refugees and people with NRPF. Phone Number: 01865 711 267 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
NOAH Enterprise
NOAH's mission is to help in alleviating poverty, bringing hope and helping people who have no where to turn to; particularly those who are temporary or entrenched rough sleepers, and those who are marginalized and socially excluded, or have simply fallen into poverty. NOAH takes a holistic approach to homelessness and exclusion and no matter which service a person comes to first they are encouraged to make use of as many areas of NOAH as necessary to enable them to reach their potential. Our services are focused on Luton and the wider Bedfordshire area. We provide accommodation for people who [...]
Helen Bamber Foundation
The Helen Bamber Foundation supports refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced human cruelty, including torture, human trafficking and other human rights abuses. We provide specialist care to meet the complex needs of some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people seeking asylum. We offer survivors specialist trauma-focused therapy, legal protection work and expert medico-legal reports, counter-trafficking safeguarding, medical assessment and liaison, housing and welfare casework, and creative arts and skills programmes to help people rebuild their lives. Phone: 0203 058 2020 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC)
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC) runs a weekly service for migrants providing advice and casework on immigration, welfare, housing and community care issues. It also offers destitution support as well as referring or signposting to other specialist organisations supporting migrants with their specific needs. During the Monday drop-in we provide a hot meal, food parcels and a welcoming space offering opportunities for connection and participation. HMSC is attended by 35-45 people every week; some of them come with children and at least a third are new visitors. These are individuals who, due to their lack of status, are excluded from [...]
Glass Door Homeless Charity
Glass Door Homeless Charity is London's largest open-access network of emergency winter shelters and support services for men and women affected by homelessness. By partnering with churches to provide shelter and support, Glass Door is committed to supporting people get—and stay—off the street. Glass Door offers shelter, advice and support through a wide-range of services. Contact: Anna Yassin Phone: 0207 351 4948 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Crisis
Crisis works directly with thousands of homeless people every year. They provide vital help so that people can rebuild their lives and are supported out of homelessness for good. They offer one to one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales. How Crisis helps someone depends on their individual needs and situation. It could be with finding a home and settling in, getting new skills and finding a job, or help with their health and wellbeing. Crisis uses research to find out how best to improve their services, but also to find [...]
Refugee Council
The Refugee Council works directly with thousands of refugees each year. The charity supports them from the moment they arrive in the UK. They provide crisis advice and practical support, help them to integrate into their new communities and offer mental health counselling to help them come to terms with the trauma so many of them have experienced. The Refugee Council is the only organisation providing a national service in support of refugee children and young people who arrive in the UK alone. They also speak up for refugees using their work as an evidence base and ensure refugees have [...]
Martha House
Martha House is a small charity providing accommodation to forced migrants experiencing homelessness in London. Food and accommodation are provided for guests who have no recourse to public funds and are not allowed to work. Open to forced migrants with low support needs, who are engaging with services to regularise their immigration status. We accept referrals from agencies who work with migrants who will continue to support clients with their immigration issues or who work closely with their client’s immigration advisers/legal team and will continue to offer clients their services and facilities. We are unable to accept referrals to The [...]
Commonweal Housing Limited
Commonweal works with Praxis Community Projects (a Full NACCOM Member) to run an NRPF housing project in London. The project provides free bed spaces for single women with NRPF, cross subsidised by income from housing families to whom local authorities have a Section 17 responsibility. Commonweal provide the houses, as well as strategic support and ongoing evaluation. Website / Twitter
Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP)
Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) is an independent, refugee-led organisation in West London that aims to empower refugees and asylum-seekers to live as valuable and valued members of British society. We believe that it is essential to protect the right to refuge so people can escape danger and suffering caused by persecution. We work towards our aim through practical activities and engagement; communications, training and networking across the voluntary and community sectors (VCS), and policy-oriented activities in partnership with others including building constructive exchange between VCS and statutory bodies relating to knowledge and support for refugees. We provide support, [...]
Together With Migrant Children
Together with Migrant Children works with children, young people and families who are migrants, refugees or asylum seekers. We work nationwide, with the majority of our work in London and the South East. We are a small team of social workers, youth workers and other family practitioners. We provide holistic support for families, support with safeguarding, work and advocacy with families with No Recourse to Public Funds and carry out assessment work for a wide variety of different purposes. We also run activity days for destitute migrant children and their families. Phone: 01865 528 658 Email: [email protected] Website
Young Roots
Young Roots work alongside young people seeking safety in the UK, building trusted relationships, providing practical and emotional support and promoting young people’s rights and power. We provide one to one casework support to young asylum seekers and refugees between the ages of 11-25 in Croydon and Brent. We help them to access services, accommodation and support. Website